Tucked away inside a sealed lead box within the Samuel de Champlain monument were several intriguing nuggets of history, worthy of further inspection. The time capsule was dug out from…
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Beat on the Street
Tired of listening to the same old rock and roll? Check this out: on November 25, La Fondation pour la connaissance de l’âme is organising a benefit concert of spiritual…
Memorials and Things of Fame
Chronicle TelegraphNovember 14th 2007Memorials and Things Of Fame1847Monday November 14, Snow StormBetween Saturday night late and Sunday morning, a north-east snow storm commenced, which continued throughout yesterday, as fiercely as…
Newcomers meet community
By MARK CALZAVARAVoice of English-speaking Quebec (VEQ) welcomed 20-odd newcomers to the Quebec City region last Thursday, November 1, to learn more about their adopted home town. Participants started with…
Robert and Paradis win at Central Québec
By MICHÈLE THIBEAUThe first voters in line on Sunday at Central Québec School Board’s Val-Bélair polling station were Duncan Robert MacTaggart, 91, and Isabelle Paradis MacTaggart, who turned 87 on…
Last Huron-Wendat Second World War Veterans gone
By MARIE WHITEThe last Huron-Wendat world war veterans are no more. Donat Siouï, Wendake’s last surviving Second World War vet, passed away last June. His brother, Patrick, had died in…
Scott’s rock a great story
I read with considerable pleasure Michèle Thibeau’s and Clive Meredith’s accounts of the Scott rock in QCT October 24.The beauty of the story comes through clearly and adds to our…
Memorials and Thing of fame
Compiled by Catherine Mills Rouleau 1847Operations on the Eye and Ear – DR. F.A. CADWELL, OCULIST AND AURIST, of Montreal, has arrived at Quebec, on Professional business, and taken rooms…
Seniors housing project cautiously moves a step forward
The Holland Regional Development Corporation’s seniors’ housing project has moved one cautious step closer to reality. “We’ve received conditional approval,” explained Richard Walling, executive director of Holland Centre. “It’s an…
Louise Penny has done it again
By MICHELE THIBEAU Quebec’s own award-winning mystery writer Louise Penny has done it again with The Cruellest Month, her third tale of death and circumstance, set in the Eastern Townships,…